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- MARCH 26, 2003CaliforniaDEATH PENALTY
Michael Schultz, 34, was sentenced to death for the Aug
Michael Schultz, 34, was sentenced to death for the Aug
- MARCH 26, 2003SerbiaDEATH PENALTY
Zivojin Stjepic of the Christian Democratic Party of...
Zivojin Stjepic of the Christian Democratic Party of Serbia (DHSS) said the party would propose to the republican government and the assembly that talks be started with the European Union on a temporary change to the Serbian Penal Code in order to re-esta
- MARCH 26, 2003TexasDEATH PENALTY
In Huntsville, a mentally ill murderer spared from...
In Huntsville, a mentally ill murderer spared from execution 5 months ago by a last-minute reprieve was executed for fatally stabbing a woman during an attempted rape
- MARCH 25, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
Larry Eugene Moon was executed for the 1984 murder...
Larry Eugene Moon was executed for the 1984 murder and robbery of 34-year-old Ricky Callahan
- MARCH 25, 2003OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
In McAlester, John Michael Hooker was executed for...
In McAlester, John Michael Hooker was executed for stabbing his girlfriend Sylvia Stokes, 28, and her mother Drusilla Morgan, 53, on March 27, 1988
- MARCH 25, 2003NigeriaDEATH PENALTY
A Nigerian Islamic court postponed the start of Amina...
A Nigerian Islamic court postponed the start of Amina Lawal's appeal against being stoned to death after the chief trial judge failed to turn up
- MARCH 25, 2003AlgeriaDEATH PENALTY
Mohamed Ferfar, arrested by the police on 28 December...
Mohamed Ferfar, arrested by the police on 28 December 1998, was sentenced to death by the criminal court in Annaba, the Algerian newspaper Le Matin reported on its website
- MARCH 25, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
The Sikh body Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee...
The Sikh body Shiromani Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (SGPC) called upon the Federal government to abolish the death penalty saying it would raise India's image in the eyes of the world
- MARCH 25, 2003MalaysiaDEATH PENALTY
Wan Mohd Azman Hassan, 30, and Ibrahim Nawang, 29,...
Wan Mohd Azman Hassan, 30, and Ibrahim Nawang, 29, were sentenced to death by the High Court after they were found guilty of trafficking 1
- MARCH 25, 2003IndiaDEATH PENALTY
Chris Pond, MP for Gravesham, threw his support behind...
Chris Pond, MP for Gravesham, threw his support behind the Sikh community by writing to Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam urging him to take Davinder Pal Singh Bhuller off death row
- MARCH 25, 2003GambiaDEATH PENALTY
Omar Jallow, interim leader of Jawara's Peoples Progressive...
Omar Jallow, interim leader of Jawara's Peoples Progressive Party of Gambia, said in an interview, whilst on tour in the US, that since the new Constitution came into force in 1996 it had been amended 28 times at the expenses of human rights
- MARCH 25, 2003United KingdomDEATH PENALTY
Chris Pond, MP for Gravesham, threw his support behind...
Chris Pond, MP for Gravesham, threw his support behind the Sikh community by writing to Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam urging him to take Davinder Pal Singh Bhuller off death row
- MARCH 24, 2003JordanDEATH PENALTY
The 'Jordan Times' reported that a 22-year-old man...
The 'Jordan Times' reported that a 22-year-old man was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court after being convicted the previous week of raping an eight-year-old child in Irbid in 2002
- MARCH 24, 2003GeorgiaDEATH PENALTY
The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a death sentence...
The Georgia Supreme Court threw out a death sentence against Gary Chad Thomason, a burglar convicted of killing 33-year-old Jerry Self
- MARCH 24, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Five people were sentenced to death in two separate...
Five people were sentenced to death in two separate murder cases in Bangladesh, the Independent reported
- MARCH 24, 2003United NationsDEATH PENALTY
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin made...
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin made a call at the UN Human Rights Commission for the universal ratification of the statute of the International Criminal Court and for the abolition of the death penalty
- MARCH 24, 2003ColoradoDEATH PENALTY
State senators added murder by terrorists and serial...
State senators added murder by terrorists and serial killers to the factors to be considered in imposing Colorado's death penalty
- MARCH 24, 2003ColoradoDEATH PENALTY
State senators added murder by terrorists and serial...
State senators added murder by terrorists and serial killers to the factors to be considered in imposing Colorado's death penalty
- MARCH 23, 2003IraqDEATH PENALTY
Seven members of Iraq's ruling Ba'th Party were executed...
Seven members of Iraq's ruling Ba'th Party were executed on the order of President Saddam Hussein's cousin and the commander in the south, Ali Hasan al-Majid
- MARCH 23, 2003BangladeshDEATH PENALTY
Abdul Latif Khokon, 25, was sentenced to death by an...
Abdul Latif Khokon, 25, was sentenced to death by an Additional District and Sessions court in Bangladesh following a conviction for rape and murder
- MARCH 23, 2003SudanDEATH PENALTY
Mustafa Adam Abdella was sentenced to death on before...
Mustafa Adam Abdella was sentenced to death on before Nyala Court
- MARCH 22, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
State media reported that two murderers, one who beat...
State media reported that two murderers, one who beat his parents to death with a metal bar and one who killed his wife with rat poison, were executed in the Chinese capital Beijing
- MARCH 22, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Muhammad Rafiq was sentenced to death and fined Rs...
Muhammad Rafiq was sentenced to death and fined Rs 50,000 by a Special Anti-Terrorism Court after being convicted of murder
- MARCH 21, 2003BotswanaDEATH PENALTY
Justice Peter Tebbutt dismissed Lehlohonolo Kobedi's...
Justice Peter Tebbutt dismissed Lehlohonolo Kobedi's death sentence appeal
- MARCH 21, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
District and Session Judge Muhammad Haneef Khan awarded...
District and Session Judge Muhammad Haneef Khan awarded the death penalty to a man known as Ladhu for the murder of Mureed Kazim in September 2002
- MARCH 21, 2003PakistanDEATH PENALTY
Three convicts were awarded death sentences with heavy...
Three convicts were awarded death sentences with heavy fines by local courts in different murder cases
- MARCH 21, 2003VietnamDEATH PENALTY
A man convicted of murdering two of his cousins and...
A man convicted of murdering two of his cousins and seriously wounding a woman was executed by firing squad in northern Vietnam
- MARCH 21, 2003FijiDEATH PENALTY
A Fiji High Court judge said he could not sentence...
A Fiji High Court judge said he could not sentence two convicted coup plotters because he wasn't certain whether the South Pacific nation had formally abolished the death penalty as the government said it had
- MARCH 21, 2003AlabamaDEATH PENALTY
In Decatur, Morgan County Circuit Judge Glenn Thompson,...
In Decatur, Morgan County Circuit Judge Glenn Thompson, who sentenced Daniel Wade Moore to death , has granted him a new trial, saying prosecutors repeatedly failed to provide Moore's defense with information that could have helped his case
- MARCH 21, 2003ChinaDEATH PENALTY
Qiao Jinming, convicted by the Second Intermediate...
Qiao Jinming, convicted by the Second Intermediate People's Court of Beijing of poisoning his wife, was sentenced to death